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In a fuguelike scene, Edith is “on fire and still alive, when I knew I would see the other side, and you opened the mask. Behind it, appalling, extracting endlessness.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
John Coltrane exhibits the fuguelike concentration that his music demands, just as Erroll Garner’s permanent smile and bouncing fingers underscore his music’s elegant playfulness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
And before you know it “Transcription” has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
But as the sonic violence takes its toll on him, the film’s culture-clash humor gives way to an uncanny fuguelike seepage between reality and artifice.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2013
Essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad, fuguelike repetition.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
